DIY Sisal Twine Pumpkins

These adorable DIY Pumpkins are made from inexpensive sisal twine that you can usually find at the Dollar Store. Each twine pumpkin takes less than 5 minutes to make and costs less than 50 cents, so you can make a whole bunch to decorate your house this fall!

By the way, have you ever wondered why there is a pumpkin in The Navage Patch’s logo? If you ask Greg, he’ll say something like, “Navage Patch, pumpkin patch. They sound alike. Get it?” And then he’ll scratch his butt, burp and ask for a dry martini.

But there is more to the story.

When my babes was designing the logo, he wanted to put a picture behind the words, but he didn’t know what to put. I told him that a pumpkin would be cool! He looked at me funny and said that a pumpkin would look too “cutesy.” He also said we weren’t going to be a garden blog. (But look who keeps posting about “his” vegetable garden, LOL.)

Seeing a strong resistance against my pumpkin idea, I had to turn on the “honey faucet.” A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do, right?

“My babes, do you want to sit on the sofa for a while?” I said to him. “Let me bring you a drink, shall I? Do you want me to scratch your arm? Let’s watch Star Wars!”

He was suspicious at first, but a martini, Star Wars and an arm scratch can do wonders!

DIY Sisal Twine Pumpkin Tutorial

Foam pipe insulators usually come with an opening as in the picture above. But if you are using a pool noodle or foam tubing, then you might need to cut an opening if your foam doesn’t already have it. Once you have your foam tubing cut like that, place your wire in it as shown in the picture above.

Once I wrapped 15 coils, I pulled the craft wire up through the opening from both ends and tied the twine coils with the wire as shown in the picture below. As I was using 2-ply sisal twine, 15 coils were a good amount for me to easily handle. If I used thinner twine, I would have done more coils. In other words, the number of coils depends on how easily you can handle the bunch.

And that was it! Here are my sisal twine pumpkins – the easiest DIY pumpkins ever!

That was pretty easy wasn’t it? As you can see, I also made some different ones with colorful Dollar Store twines – the ones they sell as pack of 3 (either 2 natural & 1 red, or 2 natural & 1 green). Since I used thinner twines for those, I could make them all at once – meaning that I didn’t need to make 3 sets of the coiled part, but instead I just wrapped the whole thing at once, and after tying it with wire, I fanned the strings to give the pumpkin shape. So those were even quicker to make, but still as charming as the sisal ones, if not more so 😉

Talking about easy and quick pumpkins, we also have these easy-peasy DIY Mesh Pumpkins! I know what you’re thinking: how can it get much easier and quicker than these sisal pumpkins right? But really – our DIY mesh pumpkins are the easiest pumpkins ever and they look amazing!

Well aren’t you a smarty pants, Handan – love these adorable pumpkins. Pinned to refer back to your tutorial when I’m ready to embrace Fall. You’ll find my skid marks in the beach sand when I’m forced to accept autumn.

I’ve found my new pumpkin craft addiction for this Fall. Thank you, Handan. These twine pumpkins are so-oooooo charming. Last year I was addicted to making upcycled fabric pumpkins. Imagine how cute the fabric pumpkins and twine pumpkins would be together. http://organized31.com/fabric-pumpkin-tutorial/

I’ve been meaning to leave a comment since last week Handan and every time I get side tracked. I think my squirrel brain is playing tricks on me 😉 Love these little twine pumpkins that you made. You always seem to come up with such unique ideas

Thank you so much, Michelle! I saw some angel vine pumpkins the other week and they were 5 dollars each. And that was for small ones (like the ones I made.) – ridiculous isn’t it? I have to say I liked them a lot, but then I thought to myself I can actually make that. That is how this project came to life. LOL.

Thank you, Jane! Yes, toilet roll or paper towel roll would also work. The trick is to cut one side of the roll – so you can get the wire in, and once finished wrapping the twine you can secure the whole thing with wire easily 🙂

dang, girl – these are great! you’ve got my mind spinning with all kinds of variations [not that these aren’t wonderful as is!] – a dusting of bronze spray paint before adding the twig – spray the whole darn thing dark gold – dipping it in wood stain – larger ones made with heavier twine – want to try inserting fairy lights, if possible can’t wait to make these with my grown daughter when she visits in Sept.

thinking I’d like to try both of these. And wouldn’t it be cute to run a stiff wire through the pumpkins and add one of two to the ball of flowers too? I need a gift for a friend real soon…might just have to put one of these together!

Caught this project from a link at Hometalk. OMG I am so making these today! I LOVE pumpkins and these will be so adorable To have and also give as gifts! (we are all fall crazy over here) I think you have a new follower! (love the pumpkin logo story!)

Hello Louise, I bought the colored twines from the “gift wrap” section of the Dollar Store (Dollar Tree to be exact.) They come with 3 twines in a pack. Usually the colors of the twines are red, natural and green. And all 3 are only a dollar. 🙂

Hi – I had the same thought, and I came up with this: I found that I could wrap the twine around any cylinder and then slide the wire under the coils – without having to cut the cylinder open. You could tape the ends of the twine to the cylinder if that makes it easier to handle. I used a one liter soda bottle and the heaviest twine I could get, worked great! I also bought faux foliage leaves at the dollar store and put a leaf on my pumpkin, really cute. Thanks again, Navage, for this great idea!

Handan & Greg

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